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Captain Norm Shaw and a mailboat "crew." The Great Pond is one of the timeless traditions that inspired On Golden Pond.
Forty countries, twenty-seven languages, three decades after the play On Golden Pond first appeared off Broadway, the classic continues to attract a worldful of lake lovers who live the reality, and many, many more who are lured by the dream.
Mother Nature is very good at keeping her systems balanced and aging slowly, but natural systems can be disrupted through the introduction of an "alien invader," either plant or animal, from a totally different ecosystem.
Swan Island, located in the Kennebec River between the towns of Richmond and Dresden, is a small parcel of land with large claims to fame: wildlife, history, settlement, access, and public visitation.
Loons are a symbol of Maine Lakes. Most lake residents and summer visitors delight to the haunting calls and the breath-taking visual of these beautiful, majestic and graceful creatures. Of the many threats to loon populations, lead poisoning is the number one cause of death of adult loons in New England.
Sometimes, when locals or visitors see 20 to 30 high-powered bass boats come zooming down the lake, their eyebrows rise up, and shoulders slump forward, followed by a moan of deepest depression — there goes the fishing. Well, that wouldn't be further from the truth. Redisplay This Page in Printer-Friendly Format <— Previous • Home • All 2008 Issues • Next —> | ||||||||||
